Paul

Paul

A Novel
Release Date: 10/23/2001
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Paul
A Novel
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Synopsis:

Walter Wangerin brings us a dramatic, fictionalized retelling of the life of Paul based on biblical texts and extensive on-site research. Readers gain a new appreciation for the sacrifices of the apostles and the early believers and gain new insights into the life of the early church.

An intimate portrait of a complex individual through whom God was at work, turning the world upside down.

With vivid imagination and scholarly depth, award-winning author Walter Wangerin Jr. weaves together the history of the early church with the life story of its greatest apostle--Paul. Wangerin begins to unfold Paul’s incredible life by imagining the childhood and early family life of a boy then called 'Saul.' A fierce prosecutor of Christians before his conversion, Paul never lost his fiery dedication, boldness, and strong personality. After his shocking encounter with God on the road to Damascus, he applied his formidable strengths to spreading the gospel. Wangerin deftly reveals Paul’s character through each stage of his life, and enables us to see Paul the person, living and complex, viewed through the eyes of his contemporaries: Barnabas, James, Prisca, Seneca, and Luke. Paul’s rich interaction and brilliant dialogue with friends and foes, leaders and slaves, Jews and Greeks, creates a swift and intense historical drama around the man who spread the seed of the Gospel to the ends of the known world.

Product Details

Format: Softcover
Language: English
Page edge color: White
ISBN 13: 9780310243168
UPC: 025986243166
Weight: 1.5 lb
Size: 9 × 5.94 × 0 in
Length: 512 Pages

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Awards Won

Christian Book Award Winner: Winner (, 2001, ECPA)
Book of the Year- Christianity Today: Winner (, 2001, Christianity Today Magazine)

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